Also from June 21
Births
Chats
Obituaries
- Carol Ann Stowe, Lawrence
- Thomas William “Bill” Goodwin, Lawrence
- Maxine L. Gerstenberger, Eudora
- Suzanne “Susie” Stroup
- Mary E. Olson, Noxon, Montana
- Wanda Jeanette Phillips, Yates Center
- Gary (Gus) Michael Fulks, Eudora
- Lucy Fay Ledbetter, Reno
- John David Bower, McLouth
- Kenneth Leroy Amess, Lawrence
- Carol Ann Stowe, Lawrence
On the street
Photos
Polls
Will you watch the Lawrence Fourth of July fireworks display?
Poll results
| Response | Percent | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 58% | |
| Yes | 25% | |
| I don’t know | 15% | |
| Total | 373 | |
Lead stories
6:00 a.m.
KU tuition and fees going up; admission standards getting more stringent- 4:14 p.m., June 20, 2012 Updated 1:36 p.m.
- Economically and academically, Kansas University is getting more expensive and selective.
10:00 a.m.
City says it underbilled two Lawrence golf courses by $325,000, seeks settlement- June 20, 2012
- City of Lawrence officials are contending a multi-year, meter-reading mix-up resulted in Alvamar Country Club and the Lawrence Country Club being underbilled for water usage to the tune of $325,000.
2:00 p.m.
County leaders hear plan to spruce up fairgrounds- June 21, 2012
- A more than $3 million plan to renovate the Douglas County Fairgrounds has the County Commission’s “enthusiastic support” but won’t be going forward, at least not until further budget considerations are made and plan-supporters can provide more detailed information on maintenance and financing options as well as operational costs if the plan were approved.
6:00 p.m.
All stories
- School diplomas once deferred now conferred
- 11:51 p.m., June 21, 2012 Updated 11:51 p.m.
- For people like Rashad Marshall and his mother, Dana, Thursday was a night of triumph. Marshall, 21, was one of 109 graduates who received diplomas from the Adult Learning Center.
- Joshua Walker convicted of raping 5-year-old Eudora girl
- 05:58 p.m., June 21, 2012 Updated 06:16 p.m.
- A Douglas County jury on Thursday convicted a 27-year-old of raping and molesting a 5-year-old girl in Eudora in 2010 and 2011.
- Regents applaud plan to ensure more credits transfer among Kansas colleges
- June 21, 2012
- The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday approved 17 general education courses that will transfer among the 32 institutions of public higher education in the state.
- Regents support additional space in KU engineering classroom building
- June 21, 2012
- The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday supported increasing the expansion of the Kansas University School of Engineering.
- Illinois mother in local abuse case says she was just as much a victim as the children
- June 21, 2012
- An attorney for a suburban Chicago woman accused in a Lawrence child abuse case after her children were found bound and blindfolded implicated her client’s husband on Thursday as the culprit in the case.
- Survey finds new Kansas prairie chicken grounds
- June 21, 2012
- A new aerial survey of Kansas has revealed new breeding grounds for the lesser prairie chicken as the bird’s habitat appears to be moving north.
- Kansas receives $560K from settlement with AIG
- June 21, 2012
- Kansas has received more than $560,000 from a multistate settlement with insurance company American International Group Inc.
- Town Talk: Plans for new Kwik Shop at 19th and Mass. may change; Bowersock warns of dam dangers for fishermen; perhaps hope remains for city’s small curbside recyclers
- June 21, 2012
- News and notes from around Lawrence and Douglas County.
- Our Town Sports for June 21
- June 21, 2012
- Horseshoes anyone?: Anyone interested in pitching horseshoes is welcome at 7 p.m. every Thursday at Broken Arrow. Contact Wynne at 843-8450.
- ‘Water baby’ indeed: Former LHS swimming star to compete in Olympic trials
- June 21, 2012
- Ann Reaney remembers well the day she took baby Emma home from the hospital.
- County leaders hear plan to spruce up fairgrounds
- June 21, 2012
- A more than $3 million plan to renovate the Douglas County Fairgrounds has the County Commission’s “enthusiastic support” but won’t be going forward, at least not until further budget considerations are made and plan-supporters can provide more detailed information on maintenance and financing options as well as operational costs if the plan were approved.
- Topeka man injured in early morning Turnpike crash
- June 21, 2012
- A 58-year-old Topeka man was injured in an accident Thursday morning on the Kansas Turnpike near the Lecompton interchange when he swerved to miss a deer.
- Heard on the Hill: Most KU custodial staff will change to work night shifts in new zone-based system; KU men’s basketball team outperforming rivals in the classroom
- June 21, 2012
- Your daily dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.
- ‘Little libraries’ put books up for sharing
- June 21, 2012
- Darcy Schild is a book person. And book people, she says, like to share.
- Historic hall
- Liberty Hall’s 100-year history in Lawrence certainly is worthy of celebration.
- June 21, 2012
- The building now known as Liberty Hall has seen a lot of Lawrence history — 100 years of Lawrence history, to be exact. The celebration of that milestone is an appropriate time to reflect on the role a building, and the people who build and preserve it, can play in a community.
- King’s question not foolish
- June 21, 2012 in print edition on A8
- There was always something hapless about Rodney King. He entered the nation’s consciousness — and its conscience — as a shambling drunk, an unemployed black construction worker who tried to outrun L.A. police rather than be arrested for drunken driving. The result was a police beating, surreptitiously captured on video, so profoundly vicious that the chief of police himself said it made him sick. In 1992, when a suburban jury, conspicuously bleached of black jurors, acquitted four white police officers of any crime, the City of Angels went to hell, erupting in one of the worst urban riots in modern American history.
- ‘Beach Boys’ rode California wave
- June 21, 2012 in print edition on A8
- Three hours before showtime, Brian Wilson says: “There is no Rhonda.” Sitting backstage, gathering strength for the evening’s 48-song, 150-minute concert, Wilson was not asked about her, he just volunteered this fact. The other members of the Beach Boys seem mildly surprised to learn that the 1965 song “Help Me, Rhonda” was about no one in particular.
- 25 years ago: Thousands of Lawrence phones knocked out for an hour
- June 21, 2012
- “We’re totally at the mercy of technology now.”
- 40 years ago: Downtown excavations reveal deteriorating water pipe connections
- June 21, 2012
- The intersection of Ninth and Massachusetts was the busy spot for construction this week.
- 100 years ago: County assessor reports latest numbers on parks, trees, gardens, cemeteries
- June 21, 2012
- “… Vegetable gardens, 320 acres; fruit trees of fruit-bearing age, 159,971; cemeteries, 166 1/2 acres.”
- Horoscope for June 21
- June 21, 2012
- For Thursday, June 21: This year you choose to walk away from negativity, as it could impact your personal or domestic life. If you are single, you might meet someone quite special in several months. If you are attached, spend more one-on-one time together.
- It’s a special night for Bieber
- June 21, 2012
- Justin Bieber gets his first network special, “Justin Bieber: All Around the World” (7 p.m., NBC). The teenage Canadian singer, discovered on YouTube and mentored by Usher, will wear a special “Justin-cam” to reveal how life unfolds from his celebrated perspective.
- So long, Chicago: Collins relocating to town
- June 21, 2012
- Former Kansas University point guard Sherron Collins, who has been rehabilitating a sprained knee that sidelined him at the end of the 2011-12 Turkish Basketball League season, has decided to relocate from Chicago to Lawrence to get in what he hopes will be the best shape of his life.
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- House rejects Senate-approved tax package; Legislature adjourns; new plan teed up May 24, 2013 · 14 comments
- Faith Forum: Can prayer really heal people? May 25, 2013 · 3 comments
- Free State girls clinch 6A state track title May 25, 2013 · 2 comments
- On the street: Should residents or businesses who use too much water be fined? May 24, 2013 · 29 comments
- Opinion: Discrimination more than just poor service May 25, 2013 · 19 comments
- Veritas graduation celebrates faith, family May 25, 2013 · 4 comments
- Opinion: Why gay role models matter May 23, 2013 · 49 comments
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013 · 17 comments
- Bill Self: Security tricky subject May 25, 2013
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013
- Graduation and 'stepping up' an all-school event at Bishop Seabury May 24, 2013
- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013
- Lawrence pastor seeks to reconnect youth to NAACP May 25, 2013
- Free State girls clinch 6A state track title May 25, 2013
- Kansas baseball moves to 2-0 in Big 12 tournament May 25, 2013
- Opinion: NYC has seen enough of Anthony Weiner May 25, 2013
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- Wichita might fine residents over use of water May 24, 2013
